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That's pretty easy to do, since the story is in the public domain now, and so on Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42183/pg42183-images.html

At the risk of things going off topic, the idea of the Black Speech being a mockery of Quenya is speculative. According to Tolkien (as per this page): From an in-world standpoint, we are (if I recall correctly) simply told that Sauron invented Black Speech during the height of his power during...

Yeah, no. Or rather, it's complicated. The issue of how the orcs were created was one that Tolkien kept coming back to over the years, because he effectively wrote himself into a corner where their origin was concerned. That was because it was a fairly important point in his legendarium that...

Yes, at least two: Quenya and Sindarin.

Honestly, this is the sort of question I feel should be in a DMG guide to world-building, ideally with some sample metrics for answering this question and examining how they help to shape the campaign dynamic. Like, suppose you say that 20th level is the highest level achievable. Now say that...

A word to the not-so-wise: if you're going to pontificate about something with absolute certitude, it helps to actually know what you're talking about.

The issue of shelf space has left me hesitating for some time to buy more paper products...well, no, that's a lie; I've still been buying them, and treating the shelf space problem as an afterthought. So I suppose the print prices being raised next month is even more reason to ignore the...

Positive energy "doesn't exist in 5E" huh? Let's look through the 5E SRD and see what we can find: Heal: "A surge of positive energy washes through the creature, causing it to regain 70 hit points." The paladin's sacred weapon use of their channel divinity power: "As an action, you can imbue...

I just picked up a copy of Gannet Games' Advanced Monster Abilities (affiliate link) for PF1. I picked this up mostly on the strength of another Gannet Games purchase I made a while back, that being the similarly-named Advancement Powers. That book presented a group of new special powers that...

I'm sympathetic to the idea of wanting a game world with internal consistency and attention to detail. I just think that this is a case of verisimilitude not being the same thing as realism (where the latter means "works how it does in the real world"). To my thinking, having the various racial...

I'm pretty sure that positive and negative energy work on any living creature, fiends included. But I'll admit I'm not up to date on 5.5E (or whatever we're calling it now). Certainly, 5E's cure wounds spell says it doesn't work on constructs and undead, meaning that it works on fiends just...

I'm pretty sure negative energy hurts them and positive energy heals them.

Okay, so what regions should be in the Core Rulebooks so as to reflect the regional languages used therein?

They're not late to the subscription train, they're late to figuring out how to make it viable for themselves. Remember Gleemax and the DDI?

Before anything else, I want to stress that none of these were particularly egregious, or even all that notable; certainly nothing which would make me concerned that this video is peddling bad information. It's just minor things which made me sigh (even then, I'm particularly plugged into this...

It has been. I mean, I suppose it's good to know what the "normies" think of the hobby, but what I noticed most were the errors and omissions. I'm honestly not sure who this video is for, because anyone who's tuned into the community already knows most (if not all) of what he's going to say...

I've mentioned elsewhere on these forums that Bards and Sages is closing their doors, with all of their products being removed from sale once they shut down. Now, they've announced that as of April 1st, 2025, they'll be shutting down their website. It's unclear if they meant their personal...

I'm reminded of the beginning of Douglas Adams' novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, where he talks about how—after inventing answering machines to talk on the phone for us, and VCRs to watch TV for us—we (humans) invented electric monks to believe things for us. Now we've reached the...

Hm, can you specify where in the book it says that? Because it's not under the "Birth" section (page 20) that I can see, which is where it says that male baatezu are fertile but females are not.

Your use of quotation marks here suggests that you're accurately presenting their position. That might very well be the case, but your lack of links or citations means that you're basically asking us to take your word for it. So to then turn around and ask... ...comes across as you holding...